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Akira Toriyama has been listed as one of the Art and architecture good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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May 25, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed
June 24, 2013	Good article nominee	Listed

A news item involving this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "In the news" column on March 9, 2024.

Current status: Good article

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